Sunny with a Chance of Meteor Strike

Some ideas fall like meteors from heaven. But if you spend your life waiting for one of those, you'll likely spend your whole life daft and dumb--waiting. And if one does come, it may just strike you in the head and it may just be too much for your poor skull to handle.

Buried Treasure

Finding a thought worth having is not like finding buried treasure. It's much more like farming. Turn the soil. Plant some good thought seeds. And keep the field free of weeds--the thoughts will find you.

Good Company

There is a big difference between being with someone and just being next to them.

Love Yourself Too

They say you should love your neighbor as yourself, but what if you aren't very good at loving yourself?
Or what if you forget to love yourself in the midst of loving others?

Before you can care for others, you have to take care of yourself.
Before you can love others, you must first love yourself.

Forgetfulness

There was a time in my life when I was quite good at forgetting myself. A time when I could not understand why I would listen to myself when there was a whole world to hear. There was a time, a time not now.

It is good to be altruistic, to not listen so strongly to yourself, but only if you do not forget yourself entirely in the process.

Glimpses of a World Lost

I often find myself desiring to take a photograph but one object or another has been placed in the middle of my artistic vision. The only feeling I have is dismay. I've come to realize, though, that my dismay is less about my ideal photograph than the disparity between reality and my ideal world. Perhaps I better start living in the world that's here instead of hunting for glimpses of a reality that is no longer present...But I don't think I will. The search for these portals to that lost world shall continue. I will persist to dismay that the world is not what it could be, but I will not let my dream slip away without pursuit.

Water

Water, in whatever form it comes, has the peculiar power to unlock something deep within the human psyche. Water is emotion, is mystery, is passion. It drives us to dream. It prays us to ponder. It asks us to answer those question with which we have struggled. The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but water is certainly the door.

virtue

Virtue is innosence that has been put to the test and passed.

Beauty

Why is it that the world seems most beautiful when you feel least like enjoying it?

Truth

I wonder, if a spell that caused me to only be able to speak whole and complete truth was cast upon me, what would I be able to say?

Blank Paper

When I see blank paper, one of two things occur:

1. I feel compelled to fill the space (or)

2. I see the potential it holds and write nothing, intimidated by what the paper could be.

There could be a lot more to blank paper than I let there be.

Time

It's hard to really get a grasp on time. We can see a centuries old building, a 2500 year old tree or a 300 year old turtle and still not get it. There are movies and books to show us the past and the lives of others, but without investing large amounts of our own time we can't even begin to get a grasp on time. When it comes to experience and history we show a remarkable inability to look beyond ourselves.

Forgiveness

Sometimes, the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

Roots

Sequoia tress, like the Redwoods in California, grow to be the tallest living things in the world. Yet they have very shallow roots. If one grew alone, a breeze could knock it over. But Sequoias grow in clusters, allowing their roots to intermingle. This knotting of roots provides them with the stability they require to reach great heights.